Once you've set up SSH, cloning a repository hosted on GitLab is pretty simple and straightforward. The structure of a repository's URI is: <host>:<namespace>/<project>.git (example: xgitlab:systems/git-tips.git). Determine where you want to clone the repository; a directory like ~/projects/ works pretty well, but it really doesn't matter; wherever you are most comfortable working.

Once you've set up SSH, cloning a repository hosted on GitLab is pretty simple and straightforward.

The structure of a repository's URI is: $host:$namespace/$project.git (example: xgitlab:systems/git-tips.git).

Determine where you want to clone the repository; a directory like ~/projects/ works pretty well, but it really doesn't matter; wherever you are most comfortable working.